Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَتَّلَهُ, inf. n. تَكْتِيلٌ, He made it (أَقِط [&c.]) into lumps, or compact pieces or portions. (TA.)

And He, or it, fattened him. (Kr, TA.)

تَكَتَّلَ It became compacted together in a mass; it became lumpy. See قِيدَ, art. قود.

كُتْلَةٌ A lump, or compact piece or portion, (Ṣ, M,* Mṣb, Ḳ,) of a thing, (Mṣb,) or of gum, &c., (Ṣ,) or of dates, and of clay, &c.: (M, Ḳ:) a piece, or portion, of dates packed together in a receptacle: (Mgh:) and a piece of flesh-meat. (Ḳ.)

كتلة i. q. زَبِيلٌ. (TA in art. حصن.)

مِكْتَلٌ A زِنْبِيل, (Mṣb, Ḳ,) or thing like a زِنْبِيل, [or زَبِيل,] (Ṣ,) holding fifteen measures of the quantity termed صَاع; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) it is a thing [or basket] made of palm-leaves, in which dates, &c., are carried. (Mṣb.)

مُكَتَّلٌ Round and compact; (Ḳ;) applied to a head: (TA:) short (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA) and strong: (TA:) a man thick in body, (Ḳ, TA,) compact therein, and inclining to shortness. (TA.)